Posted on 08/09/2019 9:30:52 PM PDT by Innovative
The Environmental Protection Agency told staff scientists that it was no longer opposing a controversial Alaska mining project that could devastate one of the world's most valuable wild salmon fisheries just one day after President Trump met with Alaska's governor, CNN has learned.
The EPA publicly announced the reversal July 30, but EPA staff sources tell CNN that they were informed of the decision a month earlier, during a hastily arranged video conference after Trump's meeting with Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The governor, a supporter of the project, emerged from that meeting saying the president assured him that he's "doing everything he can to work with us on our mining concerns."
The news came as a "total shock" to some top EPA scientists who were planning to oppose the project on environmental grounds, according to sources. Those sources asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution.
The copper-and-gold mine planned near Bristol Bay, Alaska, known as Pebble Mine, was blocked by the Obama administration's EPA after scientists found that the mine would cause "complete loss of" the bay's fish habitat.
EPA insiders tell CNN that the timing of the agency's internal announcement suggests Trump was personally involved in the decision.
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before B Clinton, the US was the worlds largest supplier of rare earths, after B Clinton closed US mines and converted them into parks etc, China took the lead.
The Pebble Mine’s principle minerals are porphyry copper, gold, and molybdenum, not rare earths.
Obama's EPA were the incompetents who poisoned the Animas River in 2015.
I would argue that wiping out the entire salmon popultion is an exageration with malice
I have seen nothing that proves the mine will actually pollute the waters.
The hysteria is similar to the damn stopping snail datrer hysteria.
Fake hysteria
A cousin used to fish out of Dillingham. When he complained about the future mine I suggested the fishermen form a group and buy the mineral rights. Crickets.
But what did the brown bears, bears of color) have to say.
Not really sure what you mean by that, however, I was just confirming your statement.
Yes, just like they were against oil pipelines because it would hurt wildlife.
But after the pipelines were built, the wildlife actually increased, I saw photos of animals happily walking on top of the pipelines.
I don’t know. Haven’t visited the area since before the poisoning.
Oh come on! You know hyperbole when you see it! This isn’t going to harm fish at all.
Well i’m not taking them in even if it is!!
It’s not that big of a house and I hear they are slobs!
:)
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